Re: A password strength checker
Re: A password strength checker
- Subject: Re: A password strength checker
- From: Howard Siegel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:32:40 -0800
Have a look at the source code for KeePass Password Safe (
http://keepass.info/). It has a password generator and strength
computation. Version 1.x is written in C++ for MS Windows (using MFC).
Version 2.x is a rewrite in C# for .NET.
It has been ported as KeyPassX for Mac OS X and Linux.
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:51, Martin Hewitson <email@hidden>wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Is anybody aware of a reasonable algorithm or some code that can be used to
> test/check the strength of a password? I'd like to give a kind of score or a
> color (red,yellow,green). I've looked at cracklib, but that doesn't give a
> score, really.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Martin
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